Gentle Giant-like band?

Atheist always had a GG-like vibe to their controlled madness, albeit it's metal and not traditional prog rock!

Awesoreno wrote: Look, plenty of artists are "influenced" by Gentle Giant, but very few actually sound like them outside of a few tracks or snippets here and there. If you're looking for the Spock's Beard tracks that actually sound somewhat like GG, they are Thoughts and Thoughts Pt. II. Mostly for the vocal polyphony. Kind of like how it's used in Cockroach King or Crystallised by Haken. Again, the only band I've heard that really sounds pretty close to GG through and through is Et Cetera. I'm sure a few that were mentioned before also get pretty close. I'll have to check out Advent and Miriodor at some point.

Thanks, I readily hear the Gentle Giant in those tracks.   Unfortunately, the people were being vague by just recommending SB as Gentle Giant-like, and I didn't ask for specific albums or music (this was in 2005) at the time, and I was on something of a carefree spending spree at the time. I had only myself to blame for going for the wrong stuff without proper research/ due diligence.

When I first heard Gentle Giant (in 2004 I think), music such as "The Moon is Down" (Acquiring the Taste being my favourite Gentle Giant album) reminded me of Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia". I liked the exuberance and adventurous nature of much GG, and Miriodor had a similar vibe for me. Miriodor is the first post-classic "Prog" band that I got into, followed by U Totem. Both appealed to me for similar reasons that GG appealed to me.

I hardly ever listen to Gentle Giant now, but in the mid 2000s it was a favourite band of mine (I particularly like the early GG albums).

I have Ripaille and Et Cetera albums. Ripaille better

Edited by dr prog - September 27 2020 at 16:47

To me Wobbler's From Silence to Somewhere sounds a bit like Gentle Giant.

It may seems odd to you but I hear GG influence in "A Passion Play" by Jethro Tull. It's their most technicaly complicated album and GG comes to mind (at list mine) quite often while listening to it.  

^ Thanks a lot, guys! Nice find for me! Are there more albums like this one within the Mike Keneally discography?

^ I will be promptly checking out those first three albums. I was also wondering where to start based on that incredible track, and there's my answer!

Epidermis 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - May 21 2021 at 14:37